The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1938, Page 15

i R paST . S | AST of the MOHICANS HLUSTRA epay-"@mgcg, e @ o~ FvE DAYS CoLonE MUNRO GALLANTLY DEFENDED FORT WILLIAM HENRY AGAINST OVERWHELMING NUMBERS OF FRENCH AN WHiLE COLONEL MUNRO AND MAJOR HEYWARD ARE PROTESTING TO THE FRENCH GENERAL,CORA AND AUCE MUNRO AND THE SINGING TEACHER, DAVID GAMUT, ARE CAUGHT AMID A FEARFUL SCENE OF CARNAGE. THE FRENCH INTERCEPT A MESSAGE FROM GENERAL \WEBB INFORMING MUNRO THAT NO HELP CAN BE SENT FROM FORT EDwARD, AND URGING HIM TO ABANDON FORT WiLLIAM HENRY. IN A PARLEY MONTCALM SHOWS THE CAPTURED MUNRO ™ AGAINST MONTCALMS ORDERS HIS SAVAGE ALLIES, THIRSTING FOR BLOOD, SCALPS AND PLUNDER, SUDDENLY ATT, THE ENGLISH, AND THE TRAGIKC "MASSACRE OF WITH NO HOPE OF RELIEF, AND WITH THE FORT CRUMBLING UNDER THE FRENCH CANNONADE, MUNRO SADLY ACCEPTS MONTCALMS TERMS 1 | (AuG.9,1757), AND THE GARRISON 1 MARCHES OUT WITH THE HONORS UNARMED BUT UNAFRAID, THE UNGAINLY DAVID RAISES HIS MIGHTY VOICE IN A SOUL STIRRING HYMN.BELIEVING HIM INSANE AND THEREFORE UNDER THE PRO- TECTION OF THE GREAT SPIRIT, THE SAVAGES DaviD AN THE GIRLS AND PASSON =~~~ "+**° INSTEAD OF SE12ING CORA ,WHOM HE DESIRES, THE WILY HURQON CARRIES ALICE OFF INTO THE WOODS, KNOWING THAT CORA WILL FOLLOW TO TRY TO SAVE HER BELOVED YOUNGER SISTER. L i MAGUA , THE HURON, SATIATED WITH BLOOD AND SCALPS, CATCHES SIGHT OF CORA AND WiTH A TRIUMPHANT WHOOP BouflDI TOWARD THE TERRIFHED GIRLS. AT SIGHT OF HiIM ALICE FAINTS. JHIGHLIGHTS & ZZ52% [e) CALLED BY THAT NAME UNTIL THE 18T CENTURY o= BEFORE THAT TIME- THE COUNTRY WAS KNOWN As MUSCOVY, ANPD: ITS PEOPLE- AS MUSCOVITES .......... THE NAME MUSCOVY WAS DERIVED FROM MOSCOW, THE DUKES OF Moscow BEING THE FIRST e RULERS OF RUSSIA - - | .US'SIA WAS NOT BACON,THE GREATEST THINKER AND PRACTICAL SCIENTIST OF HIS LAUSFIELD —*© ERSECUTED BY JEALOWS ENEMIES, ROGER T — : sEmsmsSSS=SS2Izisy |y TIMES, WAS FALSELY ACCUSER OF WITCHCRAFT AND IN 1257 SENT TO PRISON FOR TEN YEARS WITHOUT BOOKS OR INSTRUMENTS. BUT , HAPPILY, PRISON BARS COULP NOT CONFINE BACONS ACTIVE MIND NOR CHILL HIS ZEAL FoR. TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE .....